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Date Posted: 19:00:02 05/13/07 Sun
Author: David Frankenthal (this is unacceptable)
Subject: Yahoo Denies Freedom of Speech to Friends of Israel

Friends,
The propaganda war is really heating up - Yahoo has engaged in censorship of Friends of Israel by taking Join the Boycott offline without notice and without explanation. They are ignoring protests and demands to explain and put Join the Boycott back online. For anyone upset enough to want to write to Yahoo, below are the email addresses to send to and please include our website address http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm and complaint number (KMM48187527V94967L0KM) in your letter (as below). Included below are email addresses for Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, and several Yahoo media representatives. Thank you all for your support. Website owners please feel free to publicize this outrage as WMD has done. http://netwmd.com/blog/2007/05/03/1634
Best wishes, David.


df wrote:
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:39:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Yahoo Denies Freedom of Speech to Friends of Israel

To: tsemel@yahoo-inc.com, joanna@yahoo-inc.com, jerry@yahoo-inc.com, filo@yahoo-inc.com, kellyd@yahoo-inc.com, bnelson@yahoo-inc.com, Helena@yahoo-inc.com, geo-guidelines@cc.yahoo-inc.com, webmaster@yahoo.com

CC: jointheboycott@inbox.com, evening@cbsnews.com, nightline@abcnews.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, letters@washpost.com, letters@newsweek.com, comments@foxnews.com, nightly@nbc.com, info@cnbc.com, letters@nytimes.com, editor@usatoday.com, info@ap.org, letters@usnews.com, ombud@globe.com, newshour@pbs.org, atc@npr.org, heralded@herald.com, letters@suntimes.com, feedback@google.com, letters@sfchronicle.com, letters@uniontrib.com, viewer@c-span.org, newsdesk@nysun.com, ludlum@kfwb.cbs.com, editorials@knx1070.com, jacoby@globe.com, drudge@drudgereport.com, newsonline@bbc.co.uk, foreign.news@thetimes.co.uk, readrel@telegraph.co.uk, foreign@guardian.co.uk, editor@jewishpress.com, editorial@cjn.org, publisher@jta.org, editor@jewishjournal.com, info@ajpa.org, editor@jewishweek.org, webmaster@jta.org, update@aipac.org, editorial@jewishledger.com, editor@jewishaz.com, letters@forward.com, editor@jewsweek.com, editor@jta.org, publisher@netwmd.com, letters@plaind.com, letters@post-dispatch.com, Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com, dutyoffice@itv.com, jewishpress@aol.com, jberman@cdt.org, ahitsky@thejewishnews.com, gary@jewishweek.org, info@chicagojewishnews.com, susan@jewishvoiceandopinion.com, gershon@jewishweek.org, msilverstein@njjewishnews.com, louisek@jewishinseattle.org, andrea@ijn.com


To Yahoo: re http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm
complaint no. (KMM48187527V94967L0KM)

Join the Boycott, an initiative of the Friends of Israel Community, is a Yahoo Geocities website addressing the serious problem of anti-Israel propaganda in the Los Angeles Times, and anti-Israel bias in general. Join the Boycott has been providing ongoing commentary on this subject for over 5 years. Join the Boycott advocates responsible consumer protest as a means to combat anti-Israel bias.

Join the Boycott's activities are an exercise of the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech.

On April 10, Yahoo took Join the Boycott offline without notice and without explanation.

In doing so, Yahoo has violated Join the Boycott's fundamental Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech.

Since April 10, Yahoo has refused to put Join the Boycott back online and has refused to provide an explanation. Instead Yahoo has responded with abusive form responses (see below) that show that it has no justification for taking this action.

Yahoo has also responded to the numerous protesters who wrote to them requesting they put Join the Boycott back online, with abusive form responses that either demean Join the Boycott or are designed to frustrate complainers. See for example http://www.voy.com/119804/721.html and http://www.voy.com/119804/720.html.

Those who believe in Freedom of Speech and basic fairness should be outraged by what amounts to censorship of the voice of Friends of Israel. At a minimum, Yahoo must explain its unjustified and undemocratic actions.

Sincerely,

David Frankenthal
Join the Boycott webmaster
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm


df wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: df
Subject: Re: explanation please (KMM48187527V94967L0KM)
To: Yahoo! Geocities


This is not an adequate response. Please respond to our request to know exactly [what] it is that Join the Boycott said and what exact language of the Yahoo terms of service you claim we "violated". Our next response, if necessary, will be disseminated to a much wider audience.
David Frankenthal, webmaster for Join the Boycott
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm


Yahoo! Geocities wrote:
Dear David,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms of Service (TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your Yahoo! GeoCities account. The TOS can be found for your review at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

and provides in relevant part: "You agree that Yahoo!, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, Yahoo! GeoCities site, use of the Service or use of any other Yahoo! service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if Yahoo! believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Yahoo! may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Yahoo! may immediately deactivate or delete your Yahoo! GeoCities Site and all related information and files in your Yahoo GeoCities site and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service."

We take the operation of Yahoo! and the TOS very seriously. We continue to support Users who abide by the TOS.

You are welcome to establish a new account with Yahoo! and Yahoo! GeoCities at any time, provided that your use complies with our Terms of Service. If you are concerned that your intended use of our service may be a violation of the TOS, we encourage you to review the TOS and to take care to proceed accordingly.

In the future, if you find what you feel to be a violation of our Terms of Service, we encourage you to report it to us via our Violation Reporting Form:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/v/alert.html

We also encourage you to review our TOS:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

If you feel this message does not adequately respond to your question or comment, please reply to this email and let us know.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Allyson Parker

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/

33303075



Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

To Yahoo! Geocities:

We are outraged at your continued denial of Join the Boycott's freedom of speech and its contractual rights. We do not recall the specific language of the Yahoo terms of service existing at the time we joined.

But we do know that at the heart of every contract is a basic requirement that the parties act in good faith. Closing our website without notice, without explanation, and without recourse is the ultimate bad faith behaviour.

We have been a client of Yahoo Geocities for about 5 years. We have brought approximately 200,000 hits to Yahoo Geocities. To treat us with this level of discourtesy and disrespect is adding insult to the considerable injury you have caused Join the Boycott.

And just what is our sin here?

That we told the truth about KPFK and its virulent anti-Israel propaganda and anti-semitism?:

see [Israeli] "Massacres", [Israel's] "Wars against Palestinians",
"Israel's Assault of Palestine", "AIPAC's Influence on US Foreign Policy", etc.
"For a gift of $65 to KPFK, they will "gift" you the CD "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State". see Radio Intifada

That we told the truth about Whole Foods support of KPFK and its "Radio Intifada"?

Or perhaps that we continue to tell the truth about LA Times anti-Israel propaganda, or the anti-Israel propaganda at the BBC, or at NPR. Which is it?

Where does it say in the contract that telling the truth is a violation of Yahoo's terms of service?

Yes. You need to give us a full explanation as to what exactly it is that we said and what exact language of the Yahoo terms of service we "violated".

Join the Boycott is a serious website with a serious message to impart, one that people want to hear. We demand you put Join the Boycott back online immediately and issue us a refund of every cent you owe us for every moment you have kept our website offline.

If you do not, we intend to take action to protect our rights and we are including in our consideration all forms of legal action available to us.

Sincerely,

David Frankenthal
Webmaster of Join the Boycott and payor of the truthmasters Yahoo ID
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm



Yahoo! Geocities wrote:
Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms of Service (TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your Yahoo! GeoCities account. The TOS can be found for your review at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

and provides in relevant part: "You agree that Yahoo!, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, Yahoo! GeoCities site, use of the Service or use of any other Yahoo! service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if Yahoo! believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. Yahoo! may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the service under any provision of this TOS may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Yahoo! may immediately deactivate or delete your Yahoo! GeoCities Site and all related information and files in your Yahoo GeoCities site and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service."

We take the operation of Yahoo! and the TOS very seriously. We continue to support Users who abide by the TOS.

You are welcome to establish a new account with Yahoo! and Yahoo! GeoCities at any time, provided that your use complies with our Terms of Service. If you are concerned that your intended use of our service may be a violation of the TOS, we encourage you to review the TOS and to take care to proceed accordingly.

In the future, if you find what you feel to be a violation of our Terms of Service, we encourage you to report it to us via our Violation Reporting Form:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/v/alert.html

We also encourage you to review our TOS:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

If you feel this message does not adequately respond to your question or comment, please reply to this email and let us know.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Charmaine McDaniels

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/

33303075



Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

>>REDFRMADV

Yahoo Geocities ID: truthmasters
zip code: 90034
DOB: 8/24/52

The Yahoo Geocities website Join the Boycott

http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm

has been taken offline without explanation, without warning, and without any information as to how to respond.

As the webmaster and payor of the truthmasters ID for Join the Boycott I am very upset.

Why has this website been taken offline? Who is responsible for this? Who is/are the person(s) behind this scheme.

Please put Join the Boycott back online immediately and please provide a full explantion for this interruption and please provide a refund for the time it has been offline.

Thank you in anticipation of your prompt response to this address teachntrain@yahoo.com

David Frankenthal
Join the Boycot webmaster and payor of truthmasters ID
http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm

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